/library/oar/handle/123456789/24921 2026-08-07T23:27:55Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/25183 Title: Hyphen : Volume 6, Number 3 Editors: Mallia-Milanes, Victor; Scerri, Louis J.; Zammit Ciantar, Joe; Caruana Carabez, Charles Abstract: Hyphen, Volume 6, No. 3 (1990) 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/25182 Title: Infinite use of finite means : competence and performance Abstract: Using our knowledge of the grammar of our language means mainly using our linguistic intuitions. Linguistic intuitions enable a native speaker to discriminate between acceptable and unacceptable utterances, to attribute a degree of deviance to unacceptable utterances, to relate structure to meaning, and to generate all the possible utterances of a language. A child is capable of inferring the underlying patterns of the language he is exposed to, and from these regularities he is able to recognize other acceptable structures of the system. This knowledge that a human being must have in order to use language is termed 'competence', part of which consists of the grammar of the speaker. 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/25180 Title: The Mediterranean in history Abstract: Such a vast subject can, in my opinion, be tackled in only one manner if one is to avoid indefinite generalizations: one has to focus on certain primary aspects of Mediterranean history, analysing their characteristics, and explifying them with facts which are, as much as possible, new and which may serve to describe them. From their totality should emerge an overview, certainly not complete but hopefully indicative, of the great trends of history, which are inevitably determined by men and the environment. I will therefore divide my paper in three sections: prehistory, ancient history, and medieval and modern history. For each I shall seek to set down the major characteristics and also the essential links between them. Description: This paper was first published in Quaderni, I, La Riscoperta del Mediterraneo, alla ricerca di una cultura dell'Incontro, Meeting del Mediterraneo, Catania, 1985. It has been translated from Italian by Louis J. Scerri. 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/25178 Title: What is science? Abstract: In this chapter, the author discusses the search for knowledge and curiosity of humans which have led to science. Description: From *'What is Science?' from Asimov's New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov (Viking, 1985). 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z